Button 065: Bugle-American (Wisconsin underground Newspaper by Denis Kitchen)

65. Bugle-American (1975).

This alternative weekly newspaper was headquartered in Milwaukee and distributed throughout Wisconsin for eight years (1970-78). It billed itself as a "hybrid" between the establishment Milwaukee Journal and its more radical ("Off the pigs!") underground rival Kaleidoscope. Denis Kitchen co-founded the paper with four friends. Its tongue-in-cheek name was inspired by the fictional newspaper published by Spider-Man's nemesis J. Jonah Jameson. Kitchen art directed The Bugle for its first year or so, contributed a weeekly comic strip and created many color covers. A popular column was called "Toads in the Outhouse," explaining why a warty toad represents The Bugle in this promotional button drawn by Kitchen. Its long-reaching journalistic tongue is shown snaring such targets as "Firebug" (The Bugle office was firebombed), "Graft, Corruption, Evil" and "Injustice."

2.25 inch diameter. $4.00

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